My habit of keeping interesting things open in tabs on my mobile is WAY out of hand. So I’m challenging myself to blog them as I close them down. 10 a day. This is part 7.
I am terrible at keeping up streaks like this. But I seem to be doing OK with this!
Correction/Apology
I had an email from Taylor Hunt, who wrote about streamed HTML. Thanks Taylor!
I had skim read his article, and not fully got to grips with what it was about. So I’d like to say sorry to Taylor. When you read the article in detail and take time to understand it, streamed HTML is an interesting concept. I’ve update my commentary in part 5.
1. The Festival of Tomorrow
https://www.festivaloftomorrow.com/the-festival/whats-on
An excellent, annual science festival that happens in my home town.
2. unit-test-tips
https://github.com/sarven/unit-testing-tips
A free-to-read ebook of unit testing tips.
3. Enhance
An HTML-first, full-stack web framework. (This has a really fun website!)
Surprised I’ve not heard more about this. Must be very low usage.
4. Reading QR codes without a computer
An excellent dive into how QR codes are structured. I’m not sure you’ll end up being able to read them without a computer.
5. 2023 in review: Unmasking – Carl Alexander
https://carlalexander.ca/2023-in-review/
A long but interesting year in review post from Carl. Topics include autism and ADHD, his business of serverless WordPress hosting, and how ChatGPT is taking over from technical content. Thanks for being so open, Carl!
6. imagettfbbox – PHP
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagettfbbox.php
More amazing things that you can do with PHP’s standard library. Give the bounding box of a text using TrueType fonts!
7. WP Loupe
https://github.com/soderlind/wp-loupe
A plugin for WordPress that significantly improves the search capabilities of your website. Uses the Loupe search library – an SQLite based, PHP-only fulltext search engine.
8. NativePHP in 2024
https://github.com/orgs/NativePHP/discussions/248
An update on NativePHP – tooling that lets you package up PHP + Tauri or Electron as a native application.
9. Waffle
A(nother) daily word game.
10. Air-fried Chicken Tenders – Aurooba’s recipes
https://cookbook.auroobamakes.com/air-fried-chicken-tenders/
Turns out my friend and colleague keeps her recipes in an online cookbook! Yay! Thanks Aurooba.